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Saikat Chakrabarti proposes six-step plan to democratize AI
His plans feature tackling challenges including job loss, AI regulation, improved worker compensation and addressing climate concerns.
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Jeffin T. Kaleekal - Tue, 28, Apr 2026
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Saikat Chakrabarti / Saikat Chakrabarti for Congress via X
Democratic U.S. congressional hopeful and Harvard-educated software engineer Saikat Chakrabarti has released his plans to democratize artificial intelligence and transfer the control of technology from big corporations to the people.
Chakrabarti announced a six-part plan that, according to him, would “make AI work for people, not oligarchs.”
The first step in his plan features creation of publicly owned AI. Chakrabarti plans to launch a national AI lab that operates independently of the executive branch.
His proposed lab would dedicate public computers to challenges like curing rare diseases and modeling climate systems, and use publicly owned AI to deliver public services at the actual cost of running them.
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Through his plan, Chakrabarti seeks to address concerns of job loss associated with AI. Promising “millions of new high-wage jobs,” he noted that he will fight to rebuild infrastructure, transition to clean energy, and put Americans to work in high-wage careers.
He also highlighted his backing for a “federal jobs guarantee, pass Medicare for All to decouple healthcare from employment, and tax the largest AI companies to fund the transition.”
The third step in his proposed plan focuses on improving pay for workers and ensuring that productivity gains translate into shorter workweeks with higher pay for the workers and not just the people at the top.
He said, “'ll fight to move to a 32-hour workweek, pass the PRO Act to give workers a real voice in how AI is deployed, require humans in the loop in high-impact sectors like healthcare and criminal justice, and shift the tax system away from labor and toward wealth and capital.”
Fourthly, Chakrabarti hopes to establish a Federal AI Safety Administration to license and oversee the most powerful AI systems. This would require “frontier models to be licensed before they're trained, mandate regular reporting to Congress on evolving risks, and strengthen whistleblower protections for researchers who come forward.”
This, in his opinion, would prevent an AI catastrophe.
The fifth step in his plan hopes to deal with rising AI-backed misinformation and breakdown in reality. Chakrabarti pointed out the rising instance of AI-generated imagery and videos posing a direct threat to our understanding of reality. This, according to him, is a challenge to democracy because “democracy can't function without a shared understanding of reality.”
He endorsed the DEFIANCE Act, which aims to give victims of non-consensual deepfakes a path to justice, and also pledged to significantly strengthen the TAKE IT DOWN Act's penalties to better protect children.
Lastly, Chakrabarti hopes to make the data center build-out work for clean energy.
We can either let big AI companies and their CEOs control this technology, or we can take the power back into our hands. That’s why I’m announcing my 6-part plan to make AI work for people, not oligarchs. pic.twitter.com/kbeGvqtl9w
— Saikat Chakrabarti for Congress (@saikatc) April 28, 2026
He claimed, “I'll require AI companies to pay the full cost of the infrastructure they require, mandate that new data centers be paired with new clean energy generation, require closed-loop liquid cooling to cut water waste, and protect households from AI-driven rate hikes.”
Chakrabarti’s push for meaningful change and reining in of AI companies is central to his campaign. His new plan comes a week after he accused his rival, California state Sen. Scott Wiener, of watering down AI regulation laws after meeting with AI lobbyists.
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